A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 21
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
6 children in the house
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John VIII Palaiologos 1392 CE – 1448 CE -
Theodoros II Palaiologos c. 1396 CE – 1448 CE -
Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonica 1400 CE – 1429 CE -
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Konstantinos XI Palaiologos 1404 CE – 1453 CE -
Demetrios Palaiologos 1407 CE – 1470 CE 1 child in the house
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Thomas Palaiologos 1409 CE – 1465 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
- Andronikos Palaiologos1190 CE – 1248 CE · Megas domestikos of the Empire of Nicaea
- Theodora Angelina Palaiologinac. 1200 CE – before 1246 CE · Greek lady of noble descent
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Michael VIII Palaiologos1224 CE – 11 December 1282 CE · Child of Andronikos Palaiologos -
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Andronikos II Palaiologos25 March 1259 CE – 13 February 1332 CE · Child of Michael VIII Palaiologos -
Michael IX Palaiologos17 April 1277 CE – 12 October 1320 CE · Child of Andronikos II Palaiologos -
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Theodore I1290 CE – 24 April 1338 CE · Child of Andronikos II Palaiologos -
Andronikos III Palaiologos25 March 1297 CE – 15 June 1341 CE · Child of Michael IX Palaiologos -
John V Palaiologos18 June 1332 CE – 16 February 1391 CE · Child of Andronikos III Palaiologos -
Andronikos IV Palaiologos11 April 1348 CE – c. 28 June 1385 CE · Child of John V Palaiologos -
Manuel II Palaiologos27 June 1350 CE – 21 July 1425 CE · Child of John V Palaiologos -
Theodoros I Palaiologosc. 1355 CE – 24 June 1407 CE · Child of John V Palaiologos -
John VII Palaiologos1370 CE – 22 September 1408 CE · Child of Andronikos IV Palaiologos -
Helena Dragaš1372 CE – 13 March 1450 CE · Byzantine empress - John VIII Palaiologos18 December 1392 CE – 31 October 1448 CE · Child of Helena Dragaš
- Theodoros II Palaiologosc. 1396 CE – 21 June 1448 CE · Child of Helena Dragaš
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Andronikos V Palaiologos1400 CE – 1407 CE · Child of John VII Palaiologos - Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonica1400 CE – 1429 CE · Child of Helena Dragaš
- Konstantinos XI Palaiologos8 February 1404 CE – 29 May 1453 CE · Child of Helena Dragaš
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Byzantine emperor
- 13 holders
- 1 overlap
- 1 gap
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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15 August 1261 CE – 11 December 1282 CE Michael VIII Palaiologos founder of the Palaiologan dynasty (1224–1282) -
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11 December 1282 CE – 24 May 1328 CE Andronikos II Palaiologos Byzantine Emperor from 1282 to 1328 -
24 May 1328 CE – 15 June 1341 CE Andronikos III Palaiologos Byzantine emperor (r. 1328–1341) -
15 June 1341 CE – 12 August 1376 CE John V Palaiologos Byzantine emperor -
12 August 1376 CE – 1 July 1379 CE Andronikos IV Palaiologos Byzantine emperor - 1 July 1379 CE – 14 April 1390 CE John V Palaiologos Byzantine emperor
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14 April 1390 CE – September 1390 CE John VII Palaiologos Byzantine emperor - 17 September 1390 CE – 16 February 1391 CE John V Palaiologos Byzantine emperor
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16 February 1391 CE – 21 July 1425 CE Manuel II Palaiologos Byzantine emperor (1350-1425) -
Overlap held at the same time as Manuel II Palaiologos
1403 CE – 1407 CE Andronikos V Palaiologos Co-emperor/Byzantine Empire -
Gap about 18 years before the next in this house
1425 CE – 1448 CE John VIII Palaiologos Byzantine emperor -
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6 January 1449 CE – 29 May 1453 CE Konstantinos XI Palaiologos last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Michael IX Palaiologos Byzantine co-emperor
Despot of the Morea
- 5 holders
- 5 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 5
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Dates unrecorded Demetrios Palaiologos Despot of Morea - Dates unrecorded Konstantinos XI Palaiologos last Byzantine emperor, from 1449 to 1453
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Dates unrecorded Thomas Palaiologos Despot of the Morea from 1428 to 1460 -
Dates unrecorded Theodoros II Palaiologos despot of the Morea -
Dates unrecorded Theodoros I Palaiologos despot of the Morea
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
0 statements on this record
This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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